Smart packets: applying active networks to network management
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Building multicast services from unicast forwarding and ephemeral state
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue on programmable networks
Active Networks and Active Network Management: A Proactive Management Framework
Active Networks and Active Network Management: A Proactive Management Framework
Toward Efficient Distributed Network Management
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Internet indirection infrastructure
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Lightweight network support for scalable end-to-end services
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Distributed Transaction Processing as a Reliability Concept for Mobile Agents
FTDCS '97 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Network management platform based on mobile agents
International Journal of Network Management
IEEE Communications Magazine
Active networks for efficient distributed network management
IEEE Communications Magazine
Concast: design and implementation of an active network service
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On information hiding and network management
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management
Autonomics '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems
Application of Bayesian Networks for Autonomic Network Management
Journal of Network and Systems Management
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Although the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has proven to be a powerful tool for network administrators, it is widely accepted that SNMP does not offer the scalability or the functionality needed to manage large systems of routers and end systems. Active/programmable networks and mobile agent systems have been proposed as alternative network management solutions, offering new functionality and better scalability. Unfortunately, the flexibility and programmability of these (heavyweight) systems comes with its own set of problems, which has prevented them from becoming widely adopted.This paper presents an ultra-lightweight programmable network service called ephemeral state processing (ESP) that can be used to efficiently monitor and collect information from large-scale networks. Although the service offers a limited set of features, the building blocks it does offer can be combined in novel ways to solve a wide range of network management problems while avoiding the problems that plague (heavyweight) active network approaches. The simplicity of ESP allows us to make it available as a general-purpose service that can be used by all packets in the network. We demonstrate the utility of the service by showing how it can be used to efficiently solve common network management problems.